John McCain Quotes

When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

Courage is more important than confidence

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

Sometimes being afraid can show more strength than being fearless.

The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.

Courage is not the absence of fear...

Courage is fear on its knees.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.